Bath Queen Square

[Donw]

2 minutes ago, queensquare said:

 

Thanks Don although the 3D foreground hasn't had any scenic treatment yet other than basic landform which highlights the skill of John's painting. The buildings are little more than unpainted carcasses and the canal transfer shed on the left bank is just a card mock up. The latter should be some way further along the bank but I've brought it closer to the bridge to help me loose the river on this side. The only picture I have of the transfer shed is a very grainy image on one of the aireal  views so this will be largely guesswork though I'm minded to do it a bit like the lovely wooden warehouses with signwritten ends similar to the beautiful buildings Tricky did on his Midland in Bristol. If anyone can point me in the direction of pictures of Midland transfer sheds I'd be interested to see them.

 

The river itself swings round to the left in a big arc, the Midland line crossing it again  west of Bath Junction - off scene for me.

 

Jerry

 

Jerry the major bones of the foreground are there which enables one to see the composition of the scene. It is the minor adjustments of the elements both modelled and backscene that matter.

 

Don

 

Don

[queensquare]

I thought for some while about posting this picture as its predominantly of the colliery which has its own thread but is also very much part of the Bath layout. Ive decided that the Foxcote thread will be reserved for pictures and posts relating to when the colliery goes out to shows with more general views here.

This fairly iffy phone snap of 7F 81 on an up freight was taken from the operating position by the main S&D fiddle yard and gives a good idea of the view down the layout. Twinhoe bridge is in the middle distance with Combe Down looming up at the end of the room. The colliery is a bit on the busy side! 

I can only run as far as Bath Junction at the moment so the second picture is 7F 88 on the down line ready to drop down and bring the freight back up to the fiddle yard - oh the fun of playing. The hole in the backscene will be disguised with a bridge once Ive selected a suitable prototype - and made it!

 

 

[Coal Tank]

Fabulous photos Jerry 

[queensquare]

My good friend John Aldrick kindly volunteered to paint my c.1922 Manchester Diner (later Pines). He has done a fantastic job though they are currently on lockdown with him in Leeds though they have been out for a run on his Ivybridge layout - albeit with a funny green engine on the front!

I have one blue engine ready and another waiting to be painted - seen along with the coaches before they went to John. I have a couple of Nigel Hunt's 483 kits in stock so that I can build some matching red engines but they have to wait for all the stuff that's almost finished to pass through the paint shop first - discipline Clifford, discipline!! 

Jerry

 

 

 

 

 

[St Enodoc]

14 minutes ago, queensquare said:

My good friend John Aldrick kindly volunteered to paint my c.1922 Manchester Diner (later Pines). He has done a fantastic job though they are currently on lockdown with him in Leeds though they have been out for a run on his Ivybridge layout - albeit with a funny green engine on the front!

Doctor John is a top modeller and a top man.

[Robert Shrives]

The coaches look really good, as does the engine , even if not to everybodys exactitude with the stock!  Great phots a good inspiration on a lovely morning ...  thanks for showing. "All good things come to those who wait." I think is the phrase you are looking for at this time.

Robert 

[DLT]

2 hours ago, Robert Shrives said:

The coaches look really good, as does the engine , ...  Great phots a good inspiration on a lovely morning ...  thanks for showing. 

 

Wot he said! 

Thoroughly stunning modelling Jerry, please keep the inspiration coming!

Cheers, Dave.

[Brinkly]

3 hours ago, queensquare said:

My good friend John Aldrick kindly volunteered to paint my c.1922 Manchester Diner (later Pines). He has done a fantastic job though they are currently on lockdown with him in Leeds though they have been out for a run on his Ivybridge layout - albeit with a funny green engine on the front!

I have one blue engine ready and another waiting to be painted - seen along with the coaches before they went to John. I have a couple of Nigel Hunt's 483 kits in stock so that I can build some matching red engines but they have to wait for all the stuff that's almost finished to pass through the paint shop first - discipline Clifford, discipline!! 

Jerry

 

 

 

 

 

 

What beautiful craftsmanship. Beautiful stock running running on a lovely layout. Although, I would be bias being an Ivybridge resident!

 

Best wishes,

 

Nick

[Donw]

I can only echo what others have said stunning work by both of you. The Green engine pulling Maroon coaches looks quite at home on Ivybridge.  A through working from the LMS I presume. An excursion or a regular through working to Plymouth or beyond?

 

Don

[Nick Mitchell]

4 hours ago, queensquare said:

I have a couple of Nigel Hunt's 483 kits in stock so that I can build some matching red engines but they have to wait for all the stuff that's almost finished to pass through the paint shop first - discipline Clifford, discipline!!

 

Seriously over-rated, this discipline malarkey.

I too have an un-touched Nigel Hunt 483 kit in stock... when we've finished starting our 16" Hunslets, we should have a 483 class build-off (at least up to the unpainted stage!)

 

[Caley Jim]

5 minutes ago, Nick Mitchell said:

.....(at least up to the unpainted stage!)

But Jerry's will be finished at that stage - North Somerset Light Rly livery!!  

 

Jim (with big stick in hand for stirring it!)

 

Edit to add that my £5.20 piece of modelling card arrived today along with a very nice magazine, which was well worth waiting for.

Edited April 23, 2020 by Caley Jim

[queensquare]

51 minutes ago, Nick Mitchell said:

 

Seriously over-rated, this discipline malarkey.

I too have an un-touched Nigel Hunt 483 kit in stock... when we've finished starting our 16" Hunslets, we should have a 483 class build-off (at least up to the unpainted stage!)

 

 

I don't know about that, you'll have me adding all sorts of details I'd normally ignore! 

 

Jerry

[queensquare]

49 minutes ago, Caley Jim said:

But Jerry's will be finished at that stage - North Somerset Light Rly livery!!  

 

Jim (with big stick in hand for stirring it!)

 

Edit to add that my £5.20 piece of modelling card arrived today along with a very nice magazine, which was well worth waiting for.

 

Thanks Jim although I'll have you know over half my engines are painted - the percentage of painted coaches is much smaller mind!! 

 

Jerry

Edited April 23, 2020 by queensquare

[2mm Andy]

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

Doctor John is a top modeller and a top man.

 

Definitely. John has been painting some other coaches recently too (I nearly said "in a proper livery" then!).

 

This is a photo he sent to members of our 2mm area group a few weeks ago (coaches are awaiting glazing and door handles apparently) - I hope he won't mind me sharing it and that Jerry won't mind a bit of the "opposition" in Bath appearing in his thread.

 

Andy

 

Andy

[Donw]

To be fair to Jerry he builds rather a lot of stuff so there are as many painted ones as most folks.  I suspect the paint shop has trouble keeping up with the works!

My copy of MRJ arrived today too. Good issue I had the pleasure of seeing Sherton Abbas at a SWAG meet. Lovely layout. But the bulk of this issue is taken up with some excellent 2mm articles good choices Jerry.

Don

[richbrummitt]

Where did the other two coaches go between Wiltshire and Leeds? There's 8 on the bridge out of Bath but only 6 at Ivybridge. 

[TomE]

3 hours ago, richbrummitt said:

Where did the other two coaches go between Wiltshire and Leeds? There's 8 on the bridge out of Bath but only 6 at Ivybridge. 

 

Maybe the missing two were slip coaches.....

 

Tom.  

 

[Compound2632]

13 hours ago, richbrummitt said:

Where did the other two coaches go between Wiltshire and Leeds? There's 8 on the bridge out of Bath but only 6 at Ivybridge. 

 

A Western 4-6-0 can't handle over the South Devon banks what a 2P can take with ease over the Mendips.

Edited April 24, 2020 by Compound2632

[richbrummitt]

1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

 

A Western 4-6-0 can't handle over the South Devon banks what a 2P can take with ease over the Mendips.

Well that's your 2Ps worth!

[queensquare]

16 hours ago, richbrummitt said:

Where did the other two coaches go between Wiltshire and Leeds? There's 8 on the bridge out of Bath but only 6 at Ivybridge. 

 

I wondered how long it would take for somebody to notice. I took the snap of the unpainted 483 when I was testing what it would pull up Bath bank - on my version its around 1:70 on a 3' radius curve - prototype 1:50. The loco started as a 2P scratchbuilt by John Greenwood in N gauge. I finescaled it and converted it into a 483 - l/h to r/h drive, new boiler fittings and new tender. I took the opportunity to weight the tender off the rear of the loco to see what difference it made and found it well worth the effort - it will take eight brass coaches up the bank. Number 45, the painted 2P shown above doesn't have a weighted tender and will just about do six. The 2P/483s were limited to a maximum of six coaches unassisted so I probably wont rebuild it anytime soon but all future builds will definitely have a weighted tender.

 

The missing two coaches are here, in Tommy's siding, next to the Midland shed - awaiting lining (by me this time), glazing, fixing roof etc. The normal loading for the Diner was six coaches but this was regularly strengthened in the summer. In addition many of the Bristol, Bournemouth trains had a couple of through coaches attached - either at Bristol or Mangotsfield so these will be used for that.  

 

Jerry

 

 

[richbrummitt]

8 minutes ago, queensquare said:

I wondered how long it would take for somebody to notice.

 

Happy to oblige. It took a me a few goes to be sure it was eight and not seven. 

[queensquare]

18 hours ago, 2mm Andy said:

 

Definitely. John has been painting some other coaches recently too (I nearly said "in a proper livery" then!).

 

This is a photo he sent to members of our 2mm area group a few weeks ago (coaches are awaiting glazing and door handles apparently) - I hope he won't mind me sharing it and that Jerry won't mind a bit of the "opposition" in Bath appearing in his thread.

 

Andy

 

Andy

 

He's incredibly prolific, they are beautiful. The S&D and GWR might have been arch enemies but there's no denying that chocolate and cream livery is very attractive - not as nice as red or blue mind!!

 

Jerry 

Edited April 24, 2020 by queensquare

[A Murphy]

'Proper' railways don't paint coaches. They varnish them.  Grabs coat and runs.....

 

Regards,

 

Alastair M

[queensquare]

10 minutes ago, A Murphy said:

'Proper' railways don't paint coaches. They varnish them.  Grabs coat and runs.....

 

Regards,

 

Alastair M

 

I have a varnished six wheeler to build courtesy of that splendid chap Atso for my NPCS rake - it will look lovely with all that red and blue stuff!

 

Jerry

[Ian Smith]

I always thought that North Somerset Light livery was just a coat of varnish